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It all comes down to performance per dollar. Currently, ARM can't touch the performance of a mid to highend x86. But ARM is extremely cheap and a solid low to
by alberth 10y ago
It all comes down to performance per dollar.
Currently, ARM can't touch the performance of a mid to highend x86.
But ARM is extremely cheap and a solid low to mid x86.
If top end performance isn't needed. And you have the ability to recompile your software to run on ARM, you can't beat ARM pricing.
Just look at the OP link.
$12/mo for 8 cores.
For x86, you'd easily pay 10x that per month.
- kogepathic 10y ago> $12/mo for 8 cores. > For x86, you'd easily pay 10x that per month. Scaleway offers baremetal x86 servers with 8 cores for 17.99€/month (C2M). [0] But they are based on Intel Atom, so the performance is quite low. [0] https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
- dfrey 10y agoI don't care if a VPS as 1 core or 1024 cores. What I care about is how much work it can get done.